Lamport / Lamport with Hanging Houghton / Langeport

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INFORMATION
FontID: 14472LAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: High Street, Lamport, Northamptonshire NN6 9HB
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 14-15 km N of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Orlingbury [Hundred of Mawsley?]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: the hamlet of Hanging Houton appears not to have had a separate church, evern though it appears with four entries totaling 30 households in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP7573/hanging-houghton/] [accessed 12 December 2013]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "Two small round-headed windows in the tower, widely splayed inside, suggest that in its two lower stages this is of 12th-century date, but in the main the fabric belongs to the 13th century [...] The font is modern and has a spire cover of oak designed by Mr. Bodley [George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907), Victorian architect who specialised -though not exclusively- on ecclesiastical building design and renovation -- cf. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography].." The VCH (ibid.) further notes that the baptismal registers in this parish start in 1587. The Victorian font and cover are noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Font and font cover, tall, designed by Bodley, 1869." [NB: we do not have any information on the font of medieval church]. The VCH (ibid.) notes that Hanging Houghton, which appears in the Domesday Survey as Houghton, hamlet of Lamport, had a chapel as early as 1269, but we have no information whether sacraments were administred there or not. [NB: we have not been able to locate any trace of that medieval chapel in Hanging Houghton].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.363322,
-0.888262
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 21′ 47.96″ N,
0° 53′ 17.74″ W
UTM: 30U 643787 5803548
LID INFORMATION
Date: ca. 1896
Material:
wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-05-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973